Du 12 au 14 février, le Burkina Faso a organisé le deuxième forum national de l'eau et de l'assainissement (FNEA). Vaste espace de dialogue multi-acteurs, le FNEA a permis au pays de préparer sa participation au prochain forum mondial de l'eau. Il a également servi de cadre à IRC pour partager ses... Read more...
Triple-S (Sustainable Services at Scale) has led a process of learning and innovation to improve rural water service delivery in Ghana and Uganda. Each experiment has documented, results and recommendations shared with stakeholders in the two countries. In addition, the progress on the innovation... Read more...
In Ghana and Uganda, Triple-S has run a range of experiments to improve water service delivery. Taken together, these experiments were expected to contribute to the sustainability and quality of rural water services and to build sector capacity for future innovation and informed policy making. Read more...
Former president of Kenya, HE Mwai Kibaki, officially launched the Millennium Water Alliance-Kenya strategic plan last week in Nairobi and called for efficient and effective water governance. IRC is a partner in the Millennium Water Alliance. Read more...
Over the years, IRC's focus has evolved from supporting community management, to working on a 'whole system' approach to sector change. In this second blog in our series on a learning and adaptive sector we chart IRC's evolution and explore the central role of collective learning for delivering... Read more...
A 2-week training programme to introduce Water Services that Last and Costing Sustainable Services curricula to BSc students and educational staff of the University Eduardo Mondlane - Rural Engineering School was held in March 2014. Read more...
This second post - in a series of articles on water resources management by Charles Batchelor and John Butterworth - looks at water services from a water resource management (WRM) perspective. In the first article we discussed IWRM and the 'i' for integration in water resources management. Read more...
In Stockholm, CWSA and IRC presented Ghana's new monitoring framework for rural and small town water services, which enables monitoring of services provided and sustained at scale. Read more...
In this blog Patrick Moriarty reflects on Stockholm World Water Week 2014. There is good progress in language (and some tools) around the role of government in delivering services, he argues. But it's still an uphill struggle on who pays for what. Read more...
En 2013, la politique des Pays-Bas en matière d’aide au développement s’est réorientée vers le monde des affaires considéré comme le principal moteur d’une croissance durable au détriment de l’aide publique au développement. Read more...
Après un processus de travail intensif, nous avons pu lancer, fin 2013, notre nouvelle identité institutionnelle qui traduit mieux notre rôle de think-and-do-tank, utilisant les connaissances comme catalyseur de changements au profit des populations. Read more...
THE HAGUE, 27 August 2014 – IRC is proud to announce that the WASHCost e-book "Priceless!" is now available for free download online. Read more...
« Parmi les objectifs de développement durable pour 2030, la fourniture universelle de services d'Approvisionnement en Eau Potable, d’Hygiène et d’Assainissement (AEPHA) est tout à fait réalisable. Nous sommes prêts. Qu’est-ce qui nous freine ? Deux termes très puissants : l’engagement des... Read more...
There are no one-size-fits-all models for change. Within the triple-S project a number of key actions in the shift towards sustainable delivery of... Read more...
"The 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of true WASH service delivery is entirely within our reach," argues CEO of IRC Patrick Moriarty in this second of three blog posts. "We're ready. What's to stop us? Two big scary words: Government and Money." Read more...